Kearns News

A cousin and fellow gang member of the 15-year-old boy charged with fatally shooting JoJo Lee Brandstatt on a West Valley City golf course testified Friday the boy was known for having a temper and served as a gang leader on the day of the murder.

Before the four-day trial for a teen accused of killing a man in an aggravated robbery gone bad could even begin, there were questions about motive and the character of witnesses.

They conduct the criminal background checks that keep drunks from driving school buses, child molesters from teaching in schools or working in child day-care facilities, and abusive individuals from taking jobs in nursing homes.

Denis Peterson's "Wild Rose" is one of the paintings on display at Park City's McCarthey Gallery through Dec.

Norm Fitzgerald stands in the alley space between his and his neighbor's property Thursday, November 12 2009.. A network of historic alleys remains in Magna.

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Fourteen-year-old Keily Spendlove was walking home from Kearns Junior High in May when she heard a horn honk and turned to see a white car coming down the sidewalk toward her.

Visibly nervous and at times almost inaudible, teenager after teenager on Friday testified that Luka Wall Kang ran his car off the road onto the sidewalk and plowed into groups of students walking home from school.

Students from West Kearns Elementary School work in the computer lab, in the after school program Monday, January 12, 2009.

When the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office splinters into a stand-alone police department next year, its patrol deputies could escape the 2.75 percent pay cut now hanging over thousands of county employees.

A brutal beating Wednesday left a teenager from Kearns with serious injuries. His family wants to know who did it and why.

Allan Jackson kept old newspaper clippings and photographs at his home. Jackson, a famed storyteller who would have turned 106 later this month, passed away Monday at his home in Rose Park.

Police chased two different burglar suspects who tried to make a run for it but were caught and booked into jail.

Virginia Latimer has lived in the West Valley City area all 84 years of her life.

Even after cutting employees' wages, closing nearly a dozen recreation centers on Sundays and scaling back funding for everything from urban forestry to the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon still wants to raise taxes.

Billie Jo Crosley, age 44, passed away Oct. 8, in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was born Aug.

Salt Lake County Youth Services is heading up a soccer league to keep kids out of gangs.

The Mountain View Corridor will now stretch into Kearns. At a Utah Transportation Commission meeting in the Weber County Commission chambers Wednesday morning, the project manager for the corridor announced there was enough money to stretch the first portion of the road five miles farther north than originally anticipated.

Even as they were building Salt Lake City's award-winning downtown library, architects Moshe Safdie and Steve Crane had eyes for another part of the city.

Reagan showed some sweet treats on Thursday's show that would make a great holiday gift idea, perhaps for a neighbor gift or as a hostess gift.